Decent Chess set
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This is the place for quality sets imo https://www.officialstaunton.com/collections/chess-sets
the most important thing is weighted pieces. Unweighted are awful to play with. Look for a nice wood for the board too, not just random hardwood. Mahogany, ebony, padauk, maple, acacia, that sort of stuff.
the most important thing is weighted pieces. Unweighted are awful to play with. Look for a nice wood for the board too, not just random hardwood. Mahogany, ebony, padauk, maple, acacia, that sort of stuff.
Great post thanks Rob.
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And a nice box too. There’s something very therapeutic in putting quality weighted chess pieces away in a chess box.
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you know anyone in Africa or Asia. You can get a quality hand made set from there using real wood for buttons which will rival these £500 sets.
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Absolutely, it’s the workmanship and cost of materials. Fine woods aren’t cheap these days, neither is skilled labour.Blimey, chess sets go for serious money!
It’s the same with snooker cues, a top quality hand made snooker cue made from something like Rosewood or padauk can cost the best part of £500-£600.
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I hear Andy Dufresne does a nice set....takes him years though.
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Ta for the links.
Looking to spend up to £150 - so a lot of those are well out of budget
There's a company in Amritsar, Punjab India there was a documentary on YouTube about them who supposedly make the best chess sets in the world.
There's start at around £75 and go up into the £500 range.
https://www.thechessempire.com/guma...-br-3-5-king-with-16-folding-chess-board.html
Found them
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It's quite amazing to me how many times we see a chess boards on TV/Film/magazines where the board is the wrong way around as in the above link (Ice Speed Chess Game £8.68).
A recent cartoon in Private Eye showed the board the wrong way around. I emailed them and they said it would be corrected in the next issue, which it did but credited it to someone else with a much funnier reply than mine. White is Right!
Some years ago I bought an Isle of Lewis moulding kit which consisted of a resin substance and rubber moulds, if I remember correctly I mixed the resin poured it in the suspended moulds - a cut out shoe box - waited for them to cool down and reused the moulds. One of the piece moulds actually melted from the heat and I was unable to create a full set. It would then have been possible to hand paint the pawns and pieces.
As written above I've seen some beautiful chess sets in Africa (Kenya) made from what they term as soap-stone which if I'm NOT mistaken is actually chalk.
Some of these look quite nice and in budget
https://www.enjoyistanbul.com/turkish-chess-sets
https://www.enjoyistanbul.com/turkish-chess-sets